10 m broken rock hill with black glazes, W of Rancho Alegre Road, S of Coyote Trail, W of Hwy 14, S of Santa Fe, New Mexico, tour of 50 photos 1 MB size each via DropBox: Rich Murray 2011.07.28 2011.08.03 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_08_01_archive.htm Wednesday, August 3, 2011 [ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/92 [ you may have to Copy and Paste URLs into your browser ] ______________________________________________
[ Note: this long post serves to provide detailed evidence for shared discussions about the effects on ground rocks of very hot, high pressure gas jets from multiple clusters of air bursts of already highly fragmented debris in solar orbit from an initially large mostly ice comet. ] What a great pleasure for me to have such an playful, informed, intelligent, helpful, many-faceted response! http://kauscience.k12.hi.us/~ted/Craters/Sailor_Hat.html It was a real treat to see the photos of the shocked, melted, and glazed rocks, which were within the initial high temperature, high pressure fireball from .0005 KT TNT (500 tons TNT) for a few seconds -- I've been finding very similar rocks on the large volcanic plateau just W of Santa Fe, Caja del Rio, which extends from the La Bajada 200 m dropoff SW of Santa Fe to just E of the Rio Grande canyon, where White Rock bedroom community lies on the W side: 1. a surface litter of freshly cracked rocks of all sizes 2. lava rocks still in place, horizontal or vertical, cracked and fractured, that have a lighter color very bubbly interior structure, which shades into a dense compacted subsurface of 1-10 cm thickness, with the surface highly melted, and often with a metallic lustre, usually very black and blue-black, sometimes with iridescent colors, a glaze of 1-30 mm 3. rocks that seem thoroughly melted and twisted 4. concave depressions and fractures, suggesting to me blast effects 5. 1-10 m rocks that seem thoroughly cracked, often tilted and tossed 6. bubbly red lava may become 1 cm to 1 m dense, darker red chert-like rocks I'll send you a photo from a dramatic site by a public road, W of road 14, S of Santa Fe, New Mexico: ~10 m broken rock hill with black glazes above old mine, just W of Rancho Allegre Road, just S of Coyote Trail (on E side), W of Hwy 14, S of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in area of expensive homes, ranches, artists, movie sets. 35.479730 -106.085926 1.865 km el top [ The October 1996 Google Earth historical imagery has a nice BW image with the same resolution of about 1 m, while Google Maps Satellite view indicates that this site is on the NE edge of a 7 km wide volcanic region, with unusual blue-black, red-brown, and white areas -- possibly all triggered by a concentration of directed Boslough jets from air burst ice comet fragments... ] Rich Murray and Michael H. Barron studied this site from 10:35 AM to 11:25 AM Friday December 10, 2010, taking 50 photos. The various shades of brown to blue-black glazes, 1-3 mm thick, coat the oddly rough, sharp textures of the ordinary lighter color bedrock, which seems to be in place, fractured into 1-5 m pieces. My interpretation is that a dense Boslough jet, from a 35 km/sec mostly ice comet fragment air burst, at about 45 deg, with extremely complex chaotic flows at high pressures and up to 5800 deg K, fractured, ablated, and glazed the bedrock in a brief process, perhaps a few seconds, in early Holocene times, since the ground litter has many sharp fragments, not yet softened by normal erosion. This gestalt pattern of ablation is easily found in all directions within the 160 km radius of my own field visits since November, 2008. In mutual service, Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com 505-819-7388 Rich Murray 2011.08.03 0.1-1.0 MB BlackBerry photos on DropBox.com to learn about and install free 2 GB online storage space with DropBox, go to http://db.tt/hB3TNp1 1. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01431-20101210-1036.jpg 10:36 AM .816 MB 2048X1024 px BlackBerry 3.2 MPx camera December 10 2010 Friday [ double-click the image for higher resolution and size ] my silver 2001 Suzuki Esteem SW parked facing S by W side of Rancho Alegre Road, my friend Michael H. Barron walking over the ground, as usual littered with sharp rock fragments, towards a enticing 10 m high outcrop of fractured level bedrock -- no fences or warning signs 35.479730 -106.085926 1.865 km el top 2. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01432-20101210-1037.jpg 10:37 AM .939 MB a filled in small mine entrance on the E side of the hill close to the W side of the road 3. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01433-20101210-1040.jpg 10:40 AM 1.04 MB fractured 1-2 m bedrock blocks in place, with dark glazes 4. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01434-20101210-1041.jpg 10:41 AM 1.04 MB closer to the middle of the previous view -- a voice whispers from the back floor of my mind, "Not from a point source in the air like a single hydrogen bomb, but by complex chaotic fractal gas dynamics at high pressures (10-100 atm?) and up to 5800 deg K (Mark Boslough simulations at Sandia Labs in Albuquerque of directed plasma jets from fragmentation of stony asteroids many kilometers above the ground) from many sources, cracking these bedrocks, invading the cracks, eroding them very rapidly into wide crevices, leaving various melt glaze deposits as a final calling card..." 5. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01435-20101210-1042.jpg 10:42 AM 1.22 MB closer view, my trusty red ballpoint pen is 15.5X1 cm size -- the many colors of complex surface layers on this vertical E face are most eloquent... 6. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01436-20101210-1042.jpg 10:42 AM 1.09 MB very close, far older than hieroglyphics from ancient Egypt, these mysterious signs... won't it be fun to learn to read them? 7. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01437-20101210-1043.jpg 10:43 AM 1.29 MB a complex area -- the 12X3 cm size dark depression in the center has 2 prominent ridges across its space, which I call a "pawprint", resulting from counter rotating cylinder vortexes of turbulent gas that, back to back, ablate the hole and raise the ridges, as shown in many Boslough simulations -- pawprints can have many toes, and be many kilometers in size... the range of ablation forms is limitless... wonderful art, challenging science... first we learn to see letters, then words, then sentences, then whole narratives... we are highly evolved to enjoy deciphering subtle tracks and trails in complex backgrounds -- playful experience is essential -- it'd be fun to have a group play with looking at these views on a large screen, making videoes of their exploratory learnings 8. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01438-20101210-1043.jpg 10:43 AM 1.26 MB closer view of pawprint, turned to L 9. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01439-20101210-1044.jpg 10:44 AM 1.25 MB similar view of pawprint 10. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01440-20101210-1044.jpg 10:44 AM 1.25 MB wider view of pawprint, view shifted to lower R 11. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01441-20101210-1045.jpg 10.45 AM 1.18 MB 12. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01442-20101210-1047.jpg 10:47 AM 1.03 MB ground level of strata on SE corner 13. 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previous view 18. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01449-20101210-1052.jpg 10:52 AM 1.10 MB slant view of thin black glaze, towards red ballpoint pen to L of previous view 19. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01450-20101210-1053.jpg 10:53 AM 1.12 MB close view of thin black glaze at top R of previous view, red ballpoint moved to the L 20. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01461-20101210-1053.jpg 10:53 AM 1.18 MB closer view of thin black glaze 21. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01452-20101210-1054.jpg 10:54 AM 1.01 MB close view of .75 m broken bedrock with light interior color and thicker black surface glaze on rough surface 22. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01453-20101210-1055.jpg 10:55 AM 1.09 MB closer view of thicker black glaze on rough surface 23. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01454-20101210-1055.jpg 10:55 AM 1.02 MB closest view of thicker black glaze on rough surface 24. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01455-20101210-1056.jpg 10:56 AM 1.06 MB close view of thick complex black glaze on 2 m boulder at top strata 25. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01456-20101210-1056.jpg 10:56 AM 1.04 MB closer view of thick complex black glaze 26. 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closer view of previous view 34. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01465-20101210-1101.jpg 11:01 AM 1:13 MB 35. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01466-20101210-1108.jpg 11:08 AM 1:04 MB another top surface pitted rock with black and purple glazes on sharp, rough broken surfaces 36. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01467-20101210-1110.jpg 11:10 AM .989 MB 2 m rock with large patches of black glaze 37. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01468-20101210-1111.jpg 11.11 AM .990 MB close view of large patches of black glaze 38. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01469-20101210-1112.jpg 11:12 AM 1.08 MB closer view of large patches of black glaze 39. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01470-20101210-1112.jpg 11:12 AM 1.06 MB another wide view of 2 m rock with large patches of black glaze 40. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01471-20101210-1113.jpg 11:13 AM .970 MB red-brown glaze on 1.3 m ground bedrock, along with blue-black glaze on higher strata bedrock 41. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01472-20101210-1117.jpg 11:17 AM .990 MB black glaze on top part of 2 m rock on ground level 42. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01473-20101210-1122.jpg 11:22 AM 1.11 MB some blasted 1 meter blocks on NE top 43. 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http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_07_01_archive.htm Sunday, July 31, 2011 [ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/91 [ you may have to Copy and Paste URLs into your browser ] Impact melt formation by low-altitude airburst processes, evidence from small terrestrial craters and numerical modeling, H E Newsom & MBE Boslough 2008 Mar 2p abstract: Rich Murray 2010.11.17 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.htm Wednesday, November 17, 2010 [ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/73 [ you may have to Copy and Paste URLs into your browser ] 3 times more downward energy from directed force of meteor airburst in 3D simulations by Mark B. E. Boslough, Sandia Lab 2007.12.17: Rich Murray 2010.08.30 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.htm Monday, August 30, 2010 [ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/63 [you may have to Copy and Paste URLs into your browser] [Extract] http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:YY6MFUns_CkJ:scholar.google.com/+%22Mark+B\ oslough%22,+impacts&hl=en&as_sdt=10000000000 [ Extracts ] "Dr. Boslough has also shown that an LAA [ Low Altitude Airburst ] from a ~100 meter diameter NEO melted sand into glass across a region about 10 km in diameter during Libyan Desert Glass impact ~35 million years ago. During this event the LAA's fireball settled onto parts of Egypt and Libya for about a minute with temperatures approaching 5,000 K. Its hypersonic blast wave extended radially for about 100 kilometers." ground views of over 100 .1-.5 km shallow (ice comet fragment bursts) craters, Bajada del Diablo, Argentina (.78-.13 Ma BP) [42.87 S 67.47 W] Rogelio D Acevedo et al, Geomorphology 2009 Sept: Rich Murray 2010.03.28 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.htm Saturday, March 27, 2010 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/47 ______________________________________________ Rich Murray, MA Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology, BS MIT 1964, history and physics, 1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 505-819-7388 rmfor...@gmail.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AstroDeep/messages http://RMForAll.blogspot.com new primary archive http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages group with 118 members, 1,625 posts in a public archive http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartame/messages group with 1223 members, 24,362 posts in a public archive http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rmforall/messages ______________________________________________ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
